Pat Calkins, my best friend in junior high and high school, would have turned 70 on January 20th of this year if he'd lived that long. He died in 2016. I wanted to post a remembrance of him then, but couldn't find the photo from the Pioneer Inn of him in front of the painting of the Sirens. He helped with the restoration of the Pioneer Inn in 2001. St. Patrick's Day seems like a good time to post something, so here are a couple of things:
This letterhead stationery is from Jim and Pat's record shop they owned when they were in high school, at the beginning of the 1970s.
Pat's main career during his life time was as a carpenter and builder, mainly in Fayetteville.
